Colleagues I have received some disturbing info from a well connected friend about a trap that is being set for us. AAR has learnt of talk of work to rule by many in the pilot group. There has also apparently been an increase of instances of crew refusing to exercise their commanders discretion on night-time India returns and crew refusing to come in on rostered days off.
Now here is the trap. AAR has declared to certain managers that the pilot group are going to sincerely regret these actions. Crew who refuse to come in on their days off will be monitored brought in for meetings and have their days off reduced to the minimum allowed. Further disciplinary will follow if ways are not changed.
So DO NOT fall into their trap by following these simple steps.
. The easiest of them all, dont ever answer the phone when crewing call and youre not meant to be on call
. If you do answer by mistake, dont "refuse" say you just had a drink and cannot, had zero sleep and cannot, have sick dog and cannot
. Dont say youre sick as your day off will be converted to sick
. Dont ever make any political statements on the phone as its recorded and will be used against you
. Same goes for VHF, no political statements as anyone could hear this
. If you dont want to go into discretion say that the rest you had was appropriate for the duty as rostered but inappropriate for the extended duty. Dont use fatigue as that will be used against you
The above are the items that AAR is hoping to make an example of some pilots with. Also had it confirmed these a55holes do read this site to see whats going down. AAR is solely responsible for the terrible state of the morale, and this is his way of fixing it. Finally be nice to the crewing staff. I hear they are being seriously intimidated by there managers, who incidentally also report to AAR.
'An Emirates spokesman denied there is a punitive culture at the airline' *
*Sun-Herald news paper